Eccentric Flower:199806/fat happy fish dream
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thirty june ninety eight eleven a m fat happy fish dream Apologies for all this talk about dreams, but this morning, in one of the partially-awake dreaming periods, I dreamed I was standing in an all-white bathroom with a huge, white, shallow-basined pedestal sink. The sink was filled to the point of brimming over with water, and in the water were two fat, happy fish, each about the size of my fist, round and orange-red, with grey-black eyes and fins. I worried that the fish might fight with each other, but as I watched, one of the fish swam up to the other, stuck out a small black tongue, and began to clean the other's fin, like a cat. Wow, I thought, I didn't know fish did that! I walked around the far side of the basin and noticed that a huge intake fan was set in the wall behind the sink, with a wire grating covering it. It was sucking in air and making a great amount of noise that I was surprised I hadn't noticed before. It was close enough to the sink that it was actually sucking a thin sheet of water off the surface of the water in the sink, slurping it up like a waterfall in reverse. This water was then dripping out the bottom of the fan grating and running onto the bathroom floor. I put my hands into the sheet of water, experimentally, and apparently I disrupted something, the fan started blowing. Water began splashing out of the fan, from the sink, everywhere, going haywire and splashing the entire bathroom. I was wet, but mostly I was worried about the fish. I woke up to the sounds of my air conditioner fan and the rain falling loudly outside behind it. I've always thought fish were pretty fragile. I never could keep pet fish alive, and they depress me a little ... because if they get sick, what do you do? You can try to change their living conditions, and if that doesn't work, you just sort of wait for them to die. They were awfully cute fish though. © columbine |
